Edited by Jarrett Earnest and Lucas Zwirner. Introduction and portraits by Phong Bui

Since 2000, The Brooklyn Rail has been a platform for artists, academics, critics, poets, and writers in New York and abroad. The monthly journal’s continued appeal is due in large part to its diverse contributors, many of whom bring contrasting and often unexpected opinions to conversations about art and aesthetics. No other publication devotes as much space to the artist’s voice, allowing ideas to unfold and idiosyncrasies to emerge through open discussion.

Since its inception, cofounder and artistic director Phong Bui and the Rail’s contributors have interviewed over four hundred artists for The Brooklyn Rail. This volume brings together for the first time a selection of sixty of the most influential and seminal interviews with artists ranging from Richard Serra and Brice Marden, to Alex Da Corte and House of Ladosha. While each interview is important in its own right, offering a perspective on the life and work of a specific artist, collectively they tell the story of a journal that has grown during one of the more diverse and surprising periods in visual art. There is no unified style or perspective; The Brooklyn Rail’s strength lies in its ability to include and champion difference.

Selected and coedited by Jarrett Earnest, a frequent Rail contributor, with Lucas Zwirner, the book includes an introduction to the project by Phong Bui as well as many of the hand-drawn portraits he has made of those he has interviewed over the years. This combination of verbal and visual profiles offers a rare and personal insight into contemporary visual culture.

Special thanks to Furthermore, a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund, for their support of The Brooklyn Rail.

Publisher: David Zwirner Books

Contributor(s): Phong Bui, Jarrett Earnest, Lucas Zwirner

Designer: Michael Dyer, Remake

Printer: VeronaLibri, Verona

Publication Date: 2017

Binding: Softcover

Dimensions: 6 1/2 x 9 1/2 in | 16.5 x 24.1 cm

Pages: 535

Reproductions: 61 color

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ISBN: 978-1-941701-37-9

Retail: $29.95 | £24.95

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Phong Bui

Phong Bui is an artist, writer, and independent curator. He was a curatorial advisor at MoMA PS1 from 2007 to 2010. He is a co-founder, publisher, and artistic director of The Brooklyn Rail, the publishing press Rail Editions, and the Rail Curatorial Projects, as well as the host/producer of Off the Rail on Art International Radio. He is a board member of The Miami Rail, The Third Rail of the Twin Cities, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, the International Association of Art Critics United States, Anthology Film Archives, and Studio in a School, among others.

Jarrett Earnest

Jarrett Earnest is an American writer living in New York. Since 2014, he has been faculty at the free, experimental art school BHQFU and directs their MFU program. Earnest has been a monthly contributor to The Brooklyn Rail since 2011; his criticism and long-form interviews have also appeared in the Village Voice, Los Angeles Review of Books, Art in America, San Francisco Arts Quarterly, and many other publications.

Lucas Zwirner

Lucas Zwirner is editorial director at David Zwirner Books, where he recently began the ekphrasis series, dedicated to publishing short texts on visual culture by artists and writers, rarely available in English. He has also written on numerous contemporary artists and translated books from German and French.